Board of Directors Meeting - 29 March 2012 - Devon Partnership ...

Board of Directors Meeting, 29 March 2012Agenda Item 9Developing leaders to lead on inclusion and diversity and build on them for strategicadvantage;Successfully delivering change programmes to increase workforce diversity and createmore inclusive work cultures;Working across multiple organisational settings including within finance, professionalservices, film and broadcasting, health, education and third sectors in the UK and acrossEurope;Creating measurement tools to assess the impact of change programmes on inclusion,diversity and engagement;Practically applying academic knowledge and research techniques to improveorganisational understanding of and approaches to achieving workplace diversity,inclusion and engagement.Juliette Brown BA (Hons), MCIPDJuliette is owner and Managing Consultant of JJB Personnel & Training Consultancy, whichshe set up in 1999 and an Associate Consultant of Shapiro Consulting. Juliette has abackground in HR and training and is a highly experienced diversity and equality pioneerwithin the television broadcast industry and its regulatory bodies.Juliette has spent 9 years as a non-executive director on a number of NHS Mental HealthTrusts and held a wide variety of positions of responsibility for areas such as corporategovernance, was the responsible NED for whistle-blowing complaints (for staff);Chair of the User Complaints Committee; chaired grievance, disciplinary andappeal meetings; chaired investigations into untoward and other serious incidentssuch as suicide and was for several years Chair of the Suicide PreventionCommittees at the Bethlem & Maudsley NHS Mental Health Trust andsubsequently at Broadmoor Special Hospital.Juliette spent 18 years as an HR practitioner working in the television broadcast industry withthe BBC and ITV and 8 years as a Regulator of that industry with the Independent TelevisionCommission and then Ofcom, the regulator for the communications industry with whom sheworked for 8 years. She wrote a Handbook for broadcasters entitled ‘Equal opportunities: atoolkit for broadcasters’. She has been joint architect of successful professional and personaldevelopment programmes that clients have re-commissioned over a number of years.Juliette is a Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.Her clients include: Motorola, JPMorgan Chase, the Law Society and the Chartered Instituteof Purchasing and Supply in the private sector and The Cabinet Office, The National Schoolof Government, and the Home Office in the public sector.Juliette’s principle areas of expertise include:Diversity strategy development including designing equality schemes; undertaking andreporting on diversity audits; complaints investigation and mediation;Over ten years experience as a coach and facilitator and trainer of others in facilitationskills;Design and delivery of professional and personal development programmes;Extensive experience of job design, job evaluation and recruitment and selection;Qualified in occupational testing.Page 80 of 156